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Open science lab for biodiversity

@oscibio.inbo.be
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We make biodiversity research open & reproducible through data, standards and software. Based at @inbo.be in Belgium. oscibio.inbo.be

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Peter Desmet @peterdesmet.com · 24/09/2026
At #TDWG2026, I presented how the #radar aeroecology has built standards, infrastructure & tools for biomass flow data captured by weather radars. Can we evolve to a digital twin of the aerial habitat? 👉 speakerdeck.com/peterdesmet/... @tdwg.org @gbif.org @cnilsson.science @biodiversa.eu
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How to operationalize large-scale aerial biodiversity monitoring?
Talk at <a href="https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2026/">TDWG 2026</a> in Oslo, Norway - September 24, 2026.
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GBIF @gbif.org · 22/09/2026
⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 10/09/2026
📦 We just released a new version (1.0.0) of our R package {camtraptor}, which you can use to explore & visualize camera trap datasets. 📸🦌 This long-awaited release supports Camtrap DP v1.0 and offers a step-by-step exploration workflow with new functions. #rstats 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/camtrap...
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camtraptor 1.0.0
We released a new version of our R package camtraptor.
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 31/07/2026
📦 We just released a new version (1.3.0) of our R package {frictionless}, which you can use to create FAIR datasets. It includes improvements for users who want to stick with Data Package v1, since the next version (2.0.0) will adopt Data Package v2. #rstats 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/frictio...
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frictionless 1.3.0
We released a new version of our R package frictionless.
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 29/04/2026
Looking forward to #BioMonWeek 2026 with the @inbo.be team: @peterdesmet.com: “DT07 Standardising and sharing survey and monitoring data through GBIF and OBIS”, Also present: Stijn Van Onsem, Ward Langeraert Poster session: Veronique Adriaenssens, @tmilotic.bsky.social.
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 04/03/2026
📦 We just released a new major version (3.0.0) of our R package {etn}. Use it to query animal tracking data from the @aquatictracking.bsky.social database. ⛓️‍💥 Previous versions were restricted to use on an RStudio server. You can now use {etn} from anywhere! #rstats 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/etn-3-0-0
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etn 0.3.0
We released a new version of our R package etn.
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International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We invite you to submit an abstract for a session on animal movement, behaviour and biologging at the 7th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Bruges, Belgium (17-20 November 2026) @wcmb2026.bsky.social, @inbo.be, @vliz.be, @aquatictracking.bsky.social More info below! 👇
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Peter Desmet @peterdesmet.com · 24/10/2025
Have (tabular) datasets to describe? Or standards to maintain? Data Package can help! 💚 I presented an introduction to this generic, simple, open and extensible standard at #LivingData2025. speakerdeck.com/peterdesmet/... @okfn.bsky.social @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org
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Frictionless Data 101: How to document and validate datasets or create community standards with the Data Package standard
Talk at <a href="https://livingdata2025.com/">Living Data 2025</a> in Bogota, Colombia - October 24, 2025. Abstract: https://livingdata2025.com/progr&hellip;
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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 24/10/2025
Yesterday, @peterdesmet.com shared plans to publish 1000 bio-logging datasets to @gbif.org&@obis.org and spoke about 🧭Best practices for transforming bio-logging data 🧰Open-source tools supporting this 📊How GBIF & OBIS data can be used for visualisations with B-Cubed occurrence cubes #LivingData2025
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Damiano Oldoni @damianooldoni.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"The INBO Coding Club story" - Serving a sustainable coding community Exploring community engagement and capacity building at #LivingData2025 in Bogotá 🇨🇴 📄Abstract bit.ly/4hpN3vz 📊Slides bit.ly/47l4FUZ @inbo.be and @oscibio.inbo.be ❤️ #OpenScience #Rstats
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Serving a Sustainable Coding Community: The INBO Coding Club Story
Slides for a lightening talk given at Living Data 2025, October 21 - 24 of 2025 Bogotá, Colombia. Conference website: https://www.livingdata2025.com/&hellip;
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GBIF @gbif.org · 18/09/2025
🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide. 🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025 🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 02/09/2025
📦 We just released a new version (0.4.0) of our R package movepub. 🌟 This release improves the conversion of animal tracking data to Darwin Core and EML, making it easier to publish this type of data to @gbif.org and @obis.org. 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/movepub... #rstats #biologging
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movepub 0.4.0
We released a new version of our R package movepub.
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 11/06/2025
📦 We just released a new version (0.4.0) of our R package camtrapdp. 🌟 This release includes lots of new functionality, such as merging and writing Camera Trap Data Packages, updating taxa or rounding coordinates, and conversion to EML. 👉 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/camtrap... #rstats #cameratrapping
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camtrapdp 0.4.0
We released a new version of our R package camtrapdp.
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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🌟 The #FrictionlessSummit documentation is live. Review how the community meeting went to discuss #TheTechWeWant vision and the next steps for #FrictionlessData. ✍️ Blog by Community Manager @sarapetti.bsky.social : buff.ly/aQieIwO ▶️ Video recording: buff.ly/8iZ2kNv
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Benjamin Cretois @bencretois.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We're working on a common standard for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) data! 📡🎙️ Hopefully this will boost data sharing, FAIR access & large-scale studies. 🧪 Read about our proposed standard & join our May webinar via @wildlabs.bsky.social More: wildlabs.net/discussion/s...
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Safe and Sound: a standard for bioacoustic data | WILDLABS
BackgroundThanks to the Boring Fund, we are developing a common standard for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) data.Why it’s important: PAM is rapidly growing, but a core bottleneck is the lack of acc...
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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Great work by @elhamebrahimi.bsky.social at #ecm9 on creating reports starting from the #cameratrap DP standard. First of many outcomes coming out of #Big_Picture, a @biodiversaplus.bsky.social consortium focused on improving the camera trap pipeline 📷🦊🐺🫎📷
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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
💫 Happening now: @peterdesmet.com shows a concrete application of #DataPackage in the Camtrap DP project buff.ly/5EmL55P to observe animals in wildlife in a non-intrusive way. 👉🏾 You can still join the #FrictionlessSummit: buff.ly/6JSOeeQ #TheTechWeWant #OpenData
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GBIF @gbif.org · 26/03/2025
🎥 Better than the original: New SQL-based service enables download of occurrence data cube GBIF has enabled an easy-to-use service for creating and downloading species occurrence cubes based on GBIF-mediated data. Collaborators: @b-cubed.eu led by @inbo.be gbif.link/data-cubes
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GBIF @gbif.org · 26/03/2025
We're looking for the input of IAS data collectors, users or curators to take part in a survey to help shape the future of IAS data standards and accessibility. This survey is hosted by the GBIF and @tdwg.org task groups on IAS ⭐ 🔗www.surveymonkey.com...
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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 25/03/2025
📦 B-Cubed developed a collection of R packages to calculate biodiversity indicators from occurrence cubes Access the b3verse 🌐 docs.b-cubed.eu/guides/b3ver... #BCubed2025
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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 25/03/2025
👐 Тhe #BCubed2025 meeting just kicked off in Leipzig🇩🇪 💻 We start with a demo of our upcoming @gbif.org service to create species occurrence cubes More details on that very soon🔜
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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🙌🏾 Next week we'll be discussing the future of #FrictionlessData from the perspective of #TheTechWeWant initiative – @okfn.bsky.social's ambitious effort to reimagine how technology is built and used. 👉🏾 Check the programme and register now: buff.ly/BqZQgyF #DataPackage #OpenData
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European Tracking Network @aquatictracking.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
TRAVEL GRANTS FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS AVAILABLE!! 👀👀 Members of ETN who are early in their career can now apply for travel grants of 500 Euros to attend ICFT 2025 (Traverse City, Michigan, USA) 🐟 When: until 15 April Decision: by 30 April docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #trackingnotslacking
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Damiano Oldoni @damianooldoni.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Curious about making static dashboards in R? 📶 Check the Feb edition of the INBO coding club. 🔍 Slides: bit.ly/3XALIcM 📽️ Video: bit.ly/3DjXem6 Missed our previous adventuRes? Catch up on all our sessions: bit.ly/3X4pWNA We @oscibio.inbo.be and @inbo.be ❤️ #OpenScience, #RStats
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GBIF @gbif.org · 05/03/2025
We're looking for the input of IAS data collectors, users or curators to take part in a survey to help shape the future of IAS data standards and accessibility. This survey is hosted by the GBIF and @tdwg.org task groups on IAS ⭐ 🔗www.surveymonkey.com...
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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · 05/03/2025
Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
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European data on animals aloft now publicly available
Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...
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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 28/02/2025
🎉 Tomorrow, B-Cubed is celebrating 2️⃣ years of advancing biodiversity data integration! 🎂 From launching various data packages to hosting hackathons and shaping policy discussions at events, progress toward accessible and actionable data is clear Visit b-cubed.eu and stay tuned for more updates! 🙌
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B-Cubed Project @b-cubed.eu · 17/01/2025
🗓️ Only two days left before #GuardiasOnestopKickoff meeting in Ispra, Italy! 🤩 🔗 This joint event will create a collaborative space for future work in the area of #InvasiveSpecies across terrestrial and marine environments. 🗺️
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 16/01/2025
Follow Raphaël at @rafnuss.bsky.social
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 16/01/2025
We create #opensource code, but what is its impact? Luckily, Raphaël Nussbaumer wrote a blog post describing how he used our software to build a data standard for #geolocator data: oscibio.inbo.be/blog/geoloca... Couldn't be more proud! 🥹
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How I built Geolocator DP using open source code
New standard and software for geolocator data was inspired by tools developed by the Open science lab of biodiversity.
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 13/01/2025
Onze @peterdesmet.bsky.social schreef mee aan artikel in @natureecoevo.bsky.social dat pleit voor standaardisatie en archivering van biologging-data. Met @oscibio.bsky.social is het @inbo.bsky.social hier pioneer in: onze data voor vogels en vissen zijn publiek beschikbaar. rdcu.be/d5ptG
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Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Animal-borne electronic tags, or bio-loggers, are increasingly used for research and wildlife conservation. This Perspective discusses the importance of...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 06/01/2025
New Perspective: Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
Fig 2 from Davidson et al. outlining proposed set of standards for bio-logging data.
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Damiano Oldoni @damianooldoni.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Let's go to @fosdem.bsky.social 2025 🎉 Our proposed abstract about the INBO coding club has been accepted: bit.ly/3ZzsDYI 👏 @fosdemresearch.bsky.social for organizing a specific room about Open Research💪 We at INBO and @oscibio.bsky.social 💓 #OpenSource #RStats
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FOSDEM 2025 - Serving a Sustainable Coding Community: The INBO Coding Club Story
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Open science lab for biodiversity @oscibio.inbo.be · 11/12/2024
We just published a new dataset to @gbif.org: doi.org/10.15468/gn8... 📸🦌✨ It contains camera trap observations of roedeer 🦌, Chinese muntjac 🦌, dogs 🐕, foxes 🦊 and many other species and is the first dataset of @inbo.bsky.social in the Camtrap DP format.
A cropped version of an image taken by a camera trap, featuring a Chinese muntjak (Muntiacus reevesi) looking into the camera.
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